Muscimol is the active ingredient from the Amanita Muscaria (Fly Agararic mushrooms, the red one with white spots).
I've collected 40 of these mushrooms and dried them. Now I want to isolate muscimol fairly pure. So I am looking for solvents and non solvents. Since
google is only giving me the solubility of muscimol in ethanol, methanol and water I can't go far, since alot of other components of the mushroom are
also soluble in those solvents it forms a syrupkind resin which doesn't seem that pure.
My question: Is there anyone that has any idea of a (non)-solvent for muscimol? Don't bother googling since that won't help you. Maybe someone has a
patent/old book about it or knows it?
Thank you, I will post the result in this forum.
P.S: I can get almost any "common" solvents (chloroform, alot of alcohols, ...)
Kind Regards,
CPS
[Edited on 9-10-2012 by CrEaTiVePyroScience]Nicodem - 10-10-2012 at 10:49
Now I want to isolate muscimol fairly pure. So I am looking for solvents and non solvents.
What good would solubility data be to you? What you look for is the isolation procedure.
Quote:
Don't bother googling since that won't help you. Maybe someone has a patent/old book about it or knows it?
Googling is not going to help anybody on such an issue. You need to search the literature. That's the most obvious step. I doubt anybody is going to
do this work for you until you first show you did some work yourself. Once you will make a worthy literature review, others will complete it and give
you suggestions.
PS: Please open threads without references only in the Beginnings section.
Isolating Muscimol from Amanita Muscaria
CrEaTiVePyroScience - 10-10-2012 at 11:54
The solubility of Muscimol in different solvents seems pretty unknow. I am trying to isolate Muscimol from the mushroom but this isn't that easy.
I first dissolved the mushroom in hot water, filtered , evaporated and then dissolved in methanol and evaporated again. Now im left with some kind of
resin. But I am looking for the pure crystalline Muscimol powder or, atleast something more pure then I got now.
Does anyone know which (non-)solvents I could use to get a purer muscimol rate? triplepoint - 10-10-2012 at 13:00
